Machine Design – Software Lets Spacecraft Carry Heavier Loads

Machine Design – Software Lets Spacecraft Carry Heavier Loads

Posted on 7/9/2013Source: Machine Design Researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., are developing a Common Bus spacecraft made of stackable octagonal rings and off-the-shelf parts to form small landers, orbiters, or rovers. The squat octagons...

Digital Engineering – HyperSizer v6.4.5 Shipped for Composites

Posted on 7/3/2013 Source: Digital Engineering Collier Research’s newly released Version 6.4.5 of HyperSizer composite structural analysis and optimization software runs much faster, and is now based on a reconfigured core technology with built-in “intelligence” that...